Disconnected imaging operations are inherently manual in the sense that they don't involve the network and thus can't be automated through NDS® or Novell® eDirectoryTM.
To perform a disconnected imaging operation on a computer, you must have a storage device to hold the image that will be created or put down, and that storage device must be locally accessible to the imaging engine (in Linux) when you boot the computer from the imaging device. The following sections explain how to set up and perform disconnected operations using different storage devices: